Chats & messaging
Messages, photos, voice notes, stickers, effects, groups and everything you can do in a conversation.
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Getting started with chats 7
- Get started with Chats A tour of your chat list and a conversation, and everything you can do in Chats.
- Start a chat Message a contact, someone's @username, a new number, or someone whose QR code you scan.
- Find your contacts on Zaplog How contact discovery works, what Zaplog does with your address book, and how to turn it on or off.
- Chat with someone by username Find anyone on Zaplog by @username, without sharing phone numbers on either side.
- Message requests Where messages from people who found you by username wait, and how to answer or block them.
- Filter and search your chat list Use the All, Unread, Zappy, Favorites, Groups and Requests chips, and search chats and messages.
- Message ticks explained What the clock, one tick, two ticks and colored ticks mean on your messages.
Sending messages 11
- Send a message Type and send messages, add emoji, keep drafts, and choose what the Enter key does.
- Format your messages Bold, italic, strikethrough, code, quotes and lists, with symbols or the formatting menu.
- Mention people in a group Use @ to mention someone so they're notified, or @everyone to notify the whole group.
- Reply to a message Quote a specific message in your reply, or reply privately to someone from a group.
- Edit a message you sent Fix a typo or change a text message after you send it.
- Schedule a message Write a message now and have Zaplog send it at the time you choose.
- Send a message with effects Add bubble effects like Slam and Invisible Ink, or full-screen effects like Confetti and Fireworks.
- Create a poll Ask a question with up to 12 options, allow one or several answers, and see who voted for what.
- Share your location Send a pinned place or share your live location for 15 minutes to 12 hours, and stop any time.
- Share a contact Send someone's contact card in a chat, and save contacts people send you.
- Link previews Why links in chats show a title and picture, why previews can differ between phones, and how to remove one.
Photos, videos & files 5
- Send photos and videos Send pictures and videos from your gallery or camera, edit them, add captions and make collages.
- View-once photos and videos Send a photo or video that can be opened only once, then disappears from the chat.
- Send documents and files Send PDFs, documents, audio and other files up to 100 MB, and open files people send you.
- Save photos and videos to your phone Save chat media to your gallery, and choose whether downloads show in your phone's gallery automatically.
- Send files from ZapCloud Attach photos, videos and documents straight from your ZapCloud storage.
Voice & video messages 3
- Send a voice message Record, lock, cancel and send voice messages, and change the playback speed.
- Voice message transcripts Turn a voice message into text on your phone, follow along as it plays, and copy or translate it.
- Send a video note Record a quick round video message of up to 60 seconds, hands-free if you like.
Stickers, GIFs & reactions 4
- React to messages React to any message with an emoji, see who reacted, and remove your reaction.
- Send stickers, GIFs and emoji Use the emoji panel to find emoji, search GIFs and send stickers, including your favorites.
- Make your own stickers Cut a subject out of a photo, turn a short video into an animated sticker, or draw one from scratch.
- Sticker packs Create, rename and delete sticker packs, import WebP stickers, and manage favorites.
Message actions 9
- Delete messages Delete a message for everyone in the chat, or just for you, and what happens to the media.
- Forward messages Send a message, photo or file you received to one or more other chats.
- Star messages Keep important messages in one place and find them again from any chat.
- Pin messages in a chat Pin up to 4 messages to the top of a chat for everyone, from 24 hours to 30 days.
- Translate a message Translate any message, or a voice message's transcript, into the language you use Zaplog in.
- Catch me up and Draft a reply Let Zappy summarize what you missed in a busy chat, or suggest a reply you can edit.
- Message info See which group members have received and read a message you sent.
- Save a message to Notes Copy a message, link or voice message transcript into ZapNotes with one tap.
- Search in a chat Find words in one conversation and step through every match.
Organizing chats 10
- Pin chats to the top Keep your most important conversations at the top of your chat list.
- Mute a chat or group Silence notifications from a chat for 8 hours, a week, or until you turn them back on.
- Lock a chat Hide a conversation from your chat list behind your fingerprint, face or screen lock.
- Clear or delete a chat Remove all the messages in a chat, or delete the conversation from your list.
- Favorite contacts and messages Star the people you talk to most, and find messages you reacted to, in Favorites.
- Disappearing messages Make new messages in a chat or group vanish automatically after 15 minutes to 90 days.
- Chat themes and wallpapers Change your chat bubble colors and wallpaper, and the text size of messages.
- A contact's profile and chat settings Everything you can do from someone's profile, from media and muting to stealth mode and blocking.
- Media, links and docs in a chat Browse every photo, video, file, link and voice message shared in a conversation.
- Save a contact Add a new contact in Zaplog, and save people who message you but aren't in your contacts.
Groups 5
- Create a group Start a group chat, name it, add an icon and members, and set its permissions before you start.
- Group settings and permissions Change a group's name, icon and description, and control what members are allowed to do.
- Add or remove group members Add people to a group, remove members, and what happens when someone is removed.
- Group admins and the group owner What group admins can do, how to make someone an admin, and what happens when the owner leaves.
- Leave or delete a group Exit a group, exit and delete it from your phone, or delete a group for everyone.
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